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The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 1 Book Cover
The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 1, 10/e
George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University
Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo-Toledo

Multiple Choice Quiz



1

Phillis Wheatley's poetry best reflects the poetic conventions of the
A)Romantic Period
B)Neo-classical Period
C)Modernist Period
D)Post-modernist Period
2

A literary factor not instrumental in the development of Phillis Wheatley's poetry was
A)the Bible
B)the writings of Olaudah Equiano
C)the poetry of Alexander Pope
D)the literature of John Milton
3

A person whom Phillis Wheatley failed to meet in London was
A)King George III
B)the lord major of London
C)the earl of Dartmoth
D)the countess of Huntingdon
4

Phillis Wheatley wrote her elegy on the Reverend George Whitefield when she was only
A)12 years old
B)16 years old
C)20 years old
D)24 years old
5

Almost always Phillis Wheatley wrote in
A)free verse
B)quatrains
C)heroic couplets
D)alternating lines of rhyme








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